Quote

If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.

Mara Liasson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
Journalist
New York City
New York
Whole
Tiny
Going
Congress
Things
Spend
Hauling
Time
Instead
Regulators
Like
Economy
Looking
Bureaucrats
Jobs
Trivial
Problem
Focusing

More quotes by Mara Liasson

Image
Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].
Mara Liasson
Image
A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.
Mara Liasson
Image
No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.
Mara Liasson
Image
As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.
Mara Liasson
Image
Even if [Donald] Trump concedes, some of his supporters have promised to take up arms against [Hillary] Clinton.
Mara Liasson
Image
[Hillary] Clinton has also struggled with key groups of voters.
Mara Liasson
Image
What does [Hillary] Clinton do if she loses? Concede? Blame the Russians? Or the FBI?
Mara Liasson
Image
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.
Mara Liasson
Image
Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
Mara Liasson
Image
Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.
Mara Liasson
Image
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
Mara Liasson
Image
The base has chosen or is choosing a candidate that the establishment says is absolutely unacceptable. And what that means is this marriage of an elite, big business-backed establishment and a blue-collar, downwardly mobile base has really come to a divorce.
Mara Liasson
Image
White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters.
Mara Liasson
Image
Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
Mara Liasson
Image
On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.
Mara Liasson
Image
The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.
Mara Liasson
Image
Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.
Mara Liasson
Image
The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.
Mara Liasson
Image
Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.
Mara Liasson
Image
The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.
Mara Liasson